Rowling's 'secret' novel tops charts

JK Rowling's "secret" crime novel tops book charts after it is revealed she wrote it under a pseudonym. Continue reading at 'BBC News'

[ BBC News | 2013-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kay makes surgical strike on charts top spot

The paperback edition of Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt (Picador) has bounded painlessly into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, after spending seven weeks among the top three. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Grisham's Rooster flies into the chart top spot

John Grisham’s The Rooster Bar (Hodder) has leapfrogged David Walliams and Tony Ross’ The World’s Worst Children 3 (HarperCollins) to claim his second week at the UK Official Top 50 number one spot within a year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books by Rowling, Woolf and Gyasi among public's top 100 penned by women

Books by J K Rowling, Virginia Woolf and Yaa Gyasi have been nominated by the public to feature in Hay Festival and The Pool's campaign to celebrate 100 books by women from the last 100 years. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi rockets to chart top spot

Michael Kogge’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Dean & Son) has ascended into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 62,104 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Completely Five: Eleanor Oliphant continues run at the top of the chart

Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Harper) has once again held the UK Official Top 50 number one, with 24,729 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big freeze hits World Book Day, but 'Brain Freeze' tops chart

Tom Fletcher and Shane Devries’s World Book Day title Brain Freeze (Puffin) has nipped into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, leapfrogging three-week wonder Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Harper), with 37,879 copies sold through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ross proves the top draw in 2017 illustrator chart

Tony Ross has topped The Bookseller’s year-end illustrator chart for a third year in a row, after his books earned more than £16m in 2017—£7.3m more than his closest competitor, Axel Scheffler. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five goes chart-topping: Jamie Oliver is number one

Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients (Michael Joseph) has leapfrogged David Walliams’ Bad Dad (HarperCollins) to claim the UK Official Top 50 number one in the latest weekly chart​. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oliver and Hogan top Amazon print and ebook charts for 2017

Jamie Oliver has topped Amazon UK’s print chart this year in a list dominated by celebrity-authored healthy eating titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Bad Dad' sales go mad at top of bestseller chart

David Walliams’ Bad Dad (HarperCollins) has accelerated by 21% in volume week-on-week for its second week in the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, selling 112,672 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pullman dusts off second week in the charts top spot

Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage (PRH/David Fickling) has pulled off a second week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 45,015 copies for £546,248. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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High 5: Jamie tops the chart again

Jamie Oliver has continued his blistering return to form, shifting 52,211 copies of 5 Ingredients: Quick and Easy Food (Michael Joseph) last week through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market to take the Official UK number one by almost 40,000 units.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Beauty and the Best: two Disney titles top the chart

A tale as old as time has topped the chart, with the Disney Beauty and the Beast Book of the Film (Parragon) swooping in to take the UK Official Top 50 number one spot. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Father's Day titles climb charts, as Walliams keeps top spot

The World’s Worst Children 2 (HarperCollins Children's) has claimed a fourth week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 24,974 copies for £191,767. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Handmaid's Tale tops book charts after TV series UK debut

Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel rockets to number one on Amazon after Channel 4 begins airing series starring Elisabeth MossThe Handmaid’s Tale, the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood envisaging a hellish dystopia where the US is ruled by an ultra-far-right regime that treats women as chattels, has... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lee Child's Night School boomerangs back into the chart top spot

Lee Child has reclaimed his UK Official Top 50 number one, as Night School (Bantam) boomeranged back into the top spot, displacing Star Wars: Rogue One (Egmont). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: 16th Seduction tops charts

James Patterson takes the number one spot on the Weekly E-Ranking for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blob bounces to third week at top of charts

David Walliams’ Blob (HarperCollins Children's) has conquered the UK Official Top 50 number one spot for a third week running, selling 56,015 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Audio download chart: Rowling's reign continues

J K Rowling’s full Harry Potter series thunders back into January's audio chart. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orwell's 1984 rockets straight to the top of US book chart

George Orwell’s 1984 (Signet) has rocketed straight to the top of the US chart, in a somewhat turbulent week for the Land of the Free. The edition, published in 1950, sold 25,884 copies—a 479% increase on the previous seven day period and is now overall number one in the US book chart. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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